Decompress Your StressAnxious Art is for readers and doodlers seeking relief from anxiety and stress through meditative creative processes. What if we took our stress and used it to create art that brings us peace A 2016 study at Drexel university that examined the effects of creative activity on reducing levels of the stress hormone cortisol discovered that 45 minutes of art making...resulted in statistically significant lowering of cortisol levels. We all know cortisol is the stress hormone so